Phil 179S: InterNet Resources

Thinking Through Democracy

Spring 2006
Tuesday/Thursday 2:45-4:00 PM
Mr. Beckman

Useful On-Line Texts

• Plato's Republic MIT Internet Classics Archive
• Aristotle's Politics MIT Internet Classics Archive
• The Perseus Project Massive digital library at Tufts University
• Locke's Second Treatise . . . PDF version of the full text
• The Federalist Papers The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
• Some of the Anti-Federalist Papers The Constitution Society
• Text and Related Materials for Tocqueville's Democracy in America Hosted by American Studies at the University of Virginia

About the Authors

• Plato Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Aristotle Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• John Locke Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson Foundation
• Thomas Jefferson The Library of Congress
• Alexander Hamilton American Studies at The University of Virginia
• "The Alexis de Tocqueville Tour" A C-SPAN educational project
• Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
• Amitai Etzioni Home page and organizational information
• Amy Gutmann University of Pennsylvania
• Nancy Rosenblum Harvard University, Government
• Bruce Bimber UC, Santa Barbara

Other Resources for American Democracy and Philosophy

• Basic Readings in American Democracy A compendium of on-line readings in American democracy hosted by the US Department of State
• The Charters of Freedom Copies and discussions of fundamental documents in American democracy hosted by the National Archives
• The Record of American Democracy A massive aggregate data set on American politics
• The New Atlantis A Journal Of Technology and Society, hosted by the Ethics and Public Policy Center
• The Library of Congress extensive historical and up-to-date information, texts, etc.
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy An extensive professionally written account of the entire history of philosophy

News Online

• The Los Angeles Times
• The New York Times
• The Chicago Tribune
• The Washington Post
• The Christian Science Monitor
• USA Today
• The Globe and Mail (Canada)
• The London Times (England)
• The Irish Independent (Ireland)
• CNN
• CBS
• National Public Radio

By the way, I know about 1million(term)papers and similar on-line sources of student papers. Of course, we all realize that use of facilities such as this, without appropriate reference or citation, is a gross violation of HMC's honor code as well as a foolish way to pretend getting an education!

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